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			<p1>Unleash the full power of MPlayer, and customize to your hearts need, using these helpful tricks</p1>
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						<h5><b>Using the command line MPlayer</b></h5>
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						To use the command line version of mplayer without any hussle, we suggest you create a link to the binary file
						contained in the MPlayer OSX.app bundle. To do that, just type the following into your terminal:
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ln -s /Applications/MPlayer OSX.app/Contents/Resources/External_Binaries/mplayer.app/Contents/MacOS/mplayer /usr/local/bin/mplayer
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						This will create a symlink to the mplayer command line binary, and place it into /usr/local/bin. (You can place it
						anywhere you like, but traditionally, user made binaries, that are not part of the distribution are placed in
						/usr/local/bin)
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						<h5><b>MPlayer configuration file</b></h5>
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						Mplayer will by default look for a configuration file when launched. The recommended place to store your configuration
						file is in <b>~/.mplayer/config</b> (if your user name is "mike", than this would be
						<b>/Users/mike/.mplayer/config</b>). If you want to customize MPlayer, and make sure, that the settings stay, you
						need to define them in the configuration file. The syntax is <b>config_option</b> = <b>value</b>.
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						<h5><b>Improve subtitle visibility</b></h5>
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						todo
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